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World of Antimatter

It is a word which most of us have heard, but what does it really mean? Hypography Sci-Tech takes you for a spin through the antimatter course.

Posted by Tormod Guldvog
13 September, 2001 04:09:28

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It is believed that during the Big Bang, equal amounts of matter and antimatter was created. One of the big questions of cosmology is "why is there so much more matter than antimatter today?". If we could answer this question, we would know more about how the universe developed into the world we observe today.

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Scientists to capture atoms of antimatter
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/08/10/antimatter.ap/
Article in CNN Interactive.

A Smattering of Antimatter
http://www.sciam.com/0496issue/0496scicit05.html
Article in Scientific American about antimatter.

Antimatter
http://durpdg.dur.ac.uk/lbl/cpep/antimatter.html
A brief but simple presentation of the concept of antimatter, with links to illustrasions of results from searches for antimatter.

A journey through special relativity
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/cship.html
Fourmilab has created a virtual journey through matter at the speed of light!

First atoms of antimatter produced at CERN
http://press.web.cern.ch/Press/Releases96/PR01.96EAntiHydrogen.html
A document from 1995, published by CERN, which presents the first-ever production of antimatter atoms.

Ian's Cosmic Matters Page
http://sparc.airtime.co.uk/users/station/cosmic.htm
A personal page with some explanations of laws of physics, including antimatter.

Scientists consider ways to give an extra kick to spaceships
http://stp.msfc.nasa.gov/newsarchive/antimatter.html
An article at NASA's website presenting antimatter as a method of propulsion.

History of the Universe: Antimatter
http://www.historyoftheuniverse.com/antimatt.html
A presentation of the basics of antimatter.

The Particle Adventure
http://particleadventure.org/
The Particle Adventure is an award-winning site that introduces the theory of fundamental particles and forces, called the Standard Model.

The Lopsided Universe
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990206/thelopside.html
A New Scientist special feature on matter vs. antimatter.